![STUDIO 005 writers, fiction, create, authors, children's books, art, painting](https://i0.wp.com/www.writeratplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/STUDIO-0051.jpg?resize=300%2C223&ssl=1)
I think one of your tools, as a writer, should be a special work space. Do you have an extra room? Even, if its all you have, a large closet will serve. Somewhere you can call you own, a space that will, I promise you, become a creative oasis. Where no one enters except by invitation.
And it can change from day to day. I have interviewed many authors and they write on the beach, a coffee shop, on the train, in a lonely cabin in the mountains.
![An author's work space... the train](https://i0.wp.com/www.writeratplay.com/wp-content/uploads/jLondon.ulia-train.jpg?resize=163%2C217&ssl=1)
I’ve always had the luxury of a spare bedroom to call my studio. On my walls I am surrounded by my own water color work, framed letters from my publisher, photos of theatre productions. In one corner is my desk and a comfortable chair. My desktop computer has the place of honor as I do all my writing there. I simply can’t write long hand as I cannot write fast enough when the spirit is on me! I type seventy five words a minute and sometimes that’s too slow.
In the corner by a window sits my drafting/art table. Most mornings, Fiona, my assistant, snoozes or stalks birds from her comfy cushion.
![Girls at work (note cat)](https://i0.wp.com/www.writeratplay.com/wp-content/uploads/Girls_at_work.jpg?resize=166%2C255&ssl=1)
A framed piece hangs nearby that I read at least once a week. It says: ‘the most creative force on earth is the post-menopausal woman with zest!‘
In my early days of writing, when my ego was more fragile there was a sign on the closed door of my studio that stated, “writer at play”. The name of my web site was born with that little scrap of paper.
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Let it flow……….don’t give yourself messages like, ‘I must write two hours a day’….’I don’t have time to write today’… what if you have nothing to say on any given day and you’d rather be writing a blog, or painting, or scrap booking, or singing or cooking? Relax and But find a space; a room, a closet, a shed, the attic, the barn…. that’s just for you and your creative spirit!
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